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- verb Present participle of
describe .
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Examples
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Do not create a new term if a term describing a concept already exists.
Site Home Valerie Woolley 2012
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Notable was the phrasing of a warning to Iran: that any action to block free transit of regional oil shipments and other commerce would be a "redline," a term describing an unacceptable action that would be countered with an American response.
NYT > Global Home By THOM SHANKER 2011
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He added that the fault occurred in the "real dynamics of the vehicle" - a term describing the weapon's trajectory and behavior - and could not have been revealed by underground explosive testing or by examining the components.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post David E. Hoffman 2011
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Let's dispense with the argument over the semantics right here: I think we can all agree there is nothing honourable about so-called honour killings, but it is the problem itself, not the correctness of the term describing it, that is at issue in this article.
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Notable was the phrasing of a warning to Iran: that any action to block free transit of regional oil shipments and other commerce would be a "redline," a term describing an unacceptable action that would be countered with an American response.
NYT > Home Page By THOM SHANKER 2011
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Notable was the phrasing of a warning to Iran: that any action to block free transit of regional oil shipments and other commerce would be a "redline," a term describing an unacceptable action that would be countered with an American response.
NYT > Home Page By THOM SHANKER 2011
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The high-value target team is expected to use any intelligence found at the bin Laden compound in the hunt, although a month after the raid analysts have found nothing "actionable," a term describing intelligence that leads to a strike or operation against a new al-Qaida target, two U.S. officials say.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Notable was the phrasing of a warning to Iran: that any action to block free transit of regional oil shipments and other commerce would be a "redline," a term describing an unacceptable action that would be countered with an American response.
NYT > Home Page By THOM SHANKER 2011
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It is a term describing both the personal perception of a lack of social norms, and the actual breakdown of social norms and values.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lori Day 2011
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Yet the word describing the relationship between husbands and wives is respect.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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